We have always been here: A mini-episode featuring the Diaries of Lou Sullivan

Inaugural Episode

This is the inaugural episode of the WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE: A LITQB reading series.

This is the inaugural episode of the WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE: A LITQB reading series. Look out for more mini episodes like this very soon.  Thank you to my collaborator and dear friend KBB for all our ongoing conversations about queer writing and poetics. You helped inspire this LITQB rhizome.

In this mini-episode, we hear Ellis Martin read several passages from Lou Sullivan's diaries.

WE BOTH LAUGHED IN PLEASURE: THE SELECTED DIARIES OF LOU SULLIVAN (edited by Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma) narrates the inner life of a gay man moving through the shifting social, political, and medical mores of the second half of the 20th century. Sullivan kept comprehensive journals from age 11 until his AIDS-related death at 39. Sensual, lascivious, challenging, quotidian and poetic, the diaries complicate and disrupt normative trans narratives. Entries from twenty-four diaries reveal Sullivan’s self-articulation and the complexity of a fascinating and courageous figure.